Category: Best of
Best of 2025: Gypsum County Cemetery
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/12/02Jan26-Best-of-2025-Gypsum-County-Cemetery.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)If you happen to drive by the cemetery in Gypsum, Colorado on April 8th, you may find several people serving…
Best of 2025: Nathan Hale
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/12/01Jan26-Best-of-2025-Nathan-Hale.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)His only regret was that he had but one life to give for his country. They are famous words uttered…
Best of 2025: Michigan Pancake Town
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/12/31Dec25-Best-of-2025-Michigan-Pancake-Town.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Occasionally a winter storm will leave motorists stranded and locals will come to their aid. That was the case in…
Best of 2025: Chugwater, Wyoming
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/12/30Dec25-Best-of-2025-Chugwater-Wyoming.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It is noted to be the longest running image used on a license plate anywhere in the world. The image…
Best of 2025: The Little White House
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/12/29Dec25-Best-of-2025-Little-White-House.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)If you go to a tropical location, some people might decide to don a floral print shirt. But things got…
Best of 2025 – Border Line Library
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/12/26Dec25-Best-of-2025-Border-Line-Library.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)There is a black tape line on the floor of the library in Derby Line, Vermont. Walk inside and cross…
Best of 2024 – The Hawaii Champion Cowboy
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/12/01Jan25-Best-of-2024-Hawaii-Champion-Cowboy.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The accomplishment was so spectacular it is still remembered over a century later. A cowboy journeyed thousands of miles to…
Best of 2024 – A KISS Homecoming
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/12/31Dec24-Best-of-2024-KISS-Homecoming.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)There perhaps has never been a homecoming dance like the 1975 Cadillac, Michigan version. The students and the entire town…
Best of 2024 – The Lancaster Circuses
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/12/30Dec24-Best-of-2024-Lancaster-Circus.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Lancaster, Missouri is not a big town, but in the 1920s, the circuses came to town. And yes, I did…
Best of 2024 – Little America
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/12/27Dec24-Best-of-2024-Little-America.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)This place isn’t really a town, yet it has its own zip code. Sometimes it’s a bit of a game…
Best of 2024 – Ismay, Montana
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/12/26Dec24-Best-of-2024-Ismay-Montana.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)You’ll need to drive on six miles of gravel roads from the highway to get to the tiny town of…
Best of 2023: The Offer to the Bily Brother
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/12/01Jan23-Best-of-2023-Bily-Brothers.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In 1928 the Bily brothers received quite an offer from Henry Ford. He offered them one million dollars for something…
Best of 2023: North Carolina Nuclear Bomb Farm
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/12/29Dec23-Best-of-23-North-Carolina-Nuclear-Bomb-Farm.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It’s the Best of 2023 with The American Countryside! Brent Tyndall has people pulling in his driveway just about every…
Best of 2023: The Midwest Dream Car Museum
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/12/28Dec23-Best-of-23-Midwest-Dream-Car-Museum.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It’s the Best of 2023 with The American Countryside! If you’ve ever seen one of the movies in the Back…
Best of 2023: Cole Younger
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/12/27Dec23-Best-of-23-Cole-Younger.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It’s the Best of 2023 with The American Countryside! When you hear the name Cole Younger, you probably think of…
Best of 2023: Al’s Oasis
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/12/26Dec23-Best-of-23-Als-Oasis.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It’s the best of 2023 with a The American Countryside! If you’ve driven across interstate 90 in South Dakota you…
The Best of 2022 – Big Ben the Steer
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/12/30Dec22-Best-of-2022-Ben-the-Steer.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)He is the biggest steer on record – a beef that was over 16 feet in length and weighed well…
The Best of 2022 – Mean Green Jolly Giant
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/12/29Dec22-Best-of-2022-Green-Giant.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Some people have a green thumb, and it certainly seemed the farmers in southern Minnesota were experts at growing peas. …
The Best of 2022 – Big Bend Museum
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/12/28Dec22-Best-of-2022-Big-Bend.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In a moment I’ll take you to a small room, about the size of a large walk-in closet, that’s insured…
The Best of 2022 – The Piggy Bank
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/12/27Dec22-Best-of-2022-Piggy-Bank.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Maybe you had a piggy bank as a child, or perhaps you still do. In a moment I’ll take you…
